State HR Officials Propose Moving Pay Tables to 2024; ANI Says Nursing MPP Would Rise to About $40.46 an Hour
October 29, 2025 | Appropriations, Joint & Standing, Committees, Legislative, Wyoming
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Administration & Information (ANI) officials briefed the Joint Appropriations Subcommittee on Oct. 28 about a proposed update to the statewide pay tables intended to reduce a growing market gap for lower‑paid positions, particularly nursing.
ANI Director Patricia Bach said the executive branch is working to move the official pay tables from the 2022 base to 2024 market data, a change that would raise market policy positions (MPPs) on multiple tables. Erin Williams, ANI’s Human Resources Division Administrator, told the committee that the HSNU08 entry nurse market policy position would move from $34.27 an hour (2022 table) to about $40.46 an hour on the 2024 table, with a resulting increase in the pay‑table maximum from $41.12 to $48.55.
ANI and DOH officials provided a range of impacts rather than a single price tag. Erin Williams said the overall market lag across pay tables averages about 8.7 percent, but the nursing pay table is currently lagging the market by approximately 21.2 percent; moving the tables would bring wages closer to market rates and reduce turnover pressures. ANI estimated that average increases for nurses would be about 16 percent and that HSNU08 positions would gain about 18.1 percent on average if the 2024 tables are adopted and compa‑ratios preserved.
Officials repeatedly emphasized two constraints: (1) an administrative authority can set hiring rates up to the pay‑table maximum, but agencies lack the additional budgetary dollars unless the governor and legislature approve them; and (2) across‑the‑board percentage raises can create compression problems (new hires catching up to long‑tenured staff), which ANI has tried to address through matrix and compa‑ratio mechanics.
Asked for fiscal detail, ANI agreed to provide the committee with a price tag and to work with agency CFOs to model the net fiscal effect, including projected offsets from reduced contract‑labor spending and fewer vacant positions. Representative Sherwood and other members requested modeling that links higher pay to the number of contract hours that would be eliminated and to additional bed capacity the state could maintain as a result.
Provenance: Topic began at 00:41:02 (ANI Director Bach) and continued in testimony by Erin Williams and DOH staff through the committee Q&A; ANI and DOH agreed to provide cost estimates for the JAC process.
ANI Director Patricia Bach said the executive branch is working to move the official pay tables from the 2022 base to 2024 market data, a change that would raise market policy positions (MPPs) on multiple tables. Erin Williams, ANI’s Human Resources Division Administrator, told the committee that the HSNU08 entry nurse market policy position would move from $34.27 an hour (2022 table) to about $40.46 an hour on the 2024 table, with a resulting increase in the pay‑table maximum from $41.12 to $48.55.
ANI and DOH officials provided a range of impacts rather than a single price tag. Erin Williams said the overall market lag across pay tables averages about 8.7 percent, but the nursing pay table is currently lagging the market by approximately 21.2 percent; moving the tables would bring wages closer to market rates and reduce turnover pressures. ANI estimated that average increases for nurses would be about 16 percent and that HSNU08 positions would gain about 18.1 percent on average if the 2024 tables are adopted and compa‑ratios preserved.
Officials repeatedly emphasized two constraints: (1) an administrative authority can set hiring rates up to the pay‑table maximum, but agencies lack the additional budgetary dollars unless the governor and legislature approve them; and (2) across‑the‑board percentage raises can create compression problems (new hires catching up to long‑tenured staff), which ANI has tried to address through matrix and compa‑ratio mechanics.
Asked for fiscal detail, ANI agreed to provide the committee with a price tag and to work with agency CFOs to model the net fiscal effect, including projected offsets from reduced contract‑labor spending and fewer vacant positions. Representative Sherwood and other members requested modeling that links higher pay to the number of contract hours that would be eliminated and to additional bed capacity the state could maintain as a result.
Provenance: Topic began at 00:41:02 (ANI Director Bach) and continued in testimony by Erin Williams and DOH staff through the committee Q&A; ANI and DOH agreed to provide cost estimates for the JAC process.
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